Australian Energy Market Operator

AEMO operates Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM), the interconnected power system in Australia’s eastern and south-eastern seaboard, and the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and power system in Western Australia.

AEMO operates gas retail markets in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. AEMO also operates wholesale gas markets in south-eastern Australia, those being the Declared Wholesale Gas Market in Victoria (DWGM), the Short Term Trading Market in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney (STTM), and the Gas Supply Hub (GSH), whose trading locations are based at Wallumbilla in Queensland, and Moomba in South Australia. AEMO also operates the Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board (GBB), and is system operator of the Victorian Gas Declared Transmission System. AEMO is also responsible for Gas Services Information functions in Western Australia.

Each year in January, AEMO calls for expressions of interest from new generation or demand side management (DSM) facilities that may seek Certified Reserve Capacity (CRC) and Capacity Credits for the relevant Capacity Year. This allows AEMO to compile information on upcoming projects, and enables prioritisation of facilities, if required, when assigning Capacity Credits.

2018 Expressions of Interest

In accordance with clause 4.1.4 of the WEM Rules, on 31 January 2018, AEMO sought expressions of interest (EOIs) for new generation and DSM capacity for the 2020−21 Capacity Year.

EOI submissions closed on 1 May 2018. AEMO received one EOI relating to intermittent generation capacity for the 2020-21 Capacity Year. In total, 9.9 MW of additional Reserve Capacity is potentially available for the 2020-21 Capacity Year.

The Request for EOIs and the summary of EOI results for the 2018 Reserve Capacity Cycle are available below.

2017

Note: The application window of CRC for the 2017 Reserve Capacity Cycle was deferred and closed on 29 December 2017. The assignment of Capacity Credits for the 2019-20 Capacity Year was completed on 23 March 2018. Please click here to view the timetable for the 2017 Reserve Capacity.